Friday, May 16, 2008

Weather reports

The two main weather reports services in these parts, BBC and AccuWeather (which Apple uses for its widget) are regularly like five degrees apart in their report of both predicted and current temperature! What's one supposed to do with that?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

My educated guess is you'd get the best forecast from here:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

Anonymous said...

Eolake said: "The two main weather reports services in these parts ... are regularly like five degrees apart ... ! What's one supposed to do with that?"

When they reach six degrees of separation, bring it up in your local pub.

Anonymous said...

Do like me -- stay indoors.

(When I became a hermit, I foolishly promised to enlist other people to become hermits, too. Turns out that's a little tricky.)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Count me in.
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Thanks, Anon.

Alex said...

I would look at the four thermometers in your house, and take the average.

Really, I have the thermostat for the heating, and we have a "weather clock" which has a remote sensor for outdoors, and one built in. There was a 3degree spread when they were all next to each other on the table, and the alcohol thermometer which hangs on the wall has too much parallax error in reading to be meaningful.

Do Accuview and Auntie say where their temperature is for? Are they both London, or just a national average?

I also thought Auntie Beeb got their info from the met office anyway.

At least I don't need a weather forecast to know to expect no rain, except one or two showers, until October now. Yesterday it was 100+ where I work and about 95 at home.

I used to use Weather Oixie until iVillage trashed their blog site. The weather info is from the nearest airfield typically and though accuracy may not be there (update every 2 hours) the girls are cute.

Alex said...

I mean Pixie, what is an Oixie anyway? Seems to be a Record label

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Both zoomed in on Bolton.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1211

http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/index-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&postalcode=BL1%202AA